12 Oct 04
Boiling .NET Code
Curtis Olson contributed this story about how to control lava lamps from CruiseControl.NET.more...
04 Oct 04
Xcode On CruiseControl
CruiseControl is for building Java projects, right? Not so fast. This article describes how to put Xcode projects—Cocoa, Objective-C, and Java projects—on CruiseControl.more...
30 Sep 04
Monitoring .NET Applications with WMI
Here’s a resource for the .NET folks out there that explains how to use Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to string trip wires in your .NET application.more...
25 Sep 04
NSIS 2.01 Released
The latest release of the NSIS installer/uninstaller lets you create continuous builds of Windows applications on a *nix server.more...
24 Sep 04
Builds In Surround Sound
Ah, it’s Friday—the end of another long week slaving behind a hot keyboard. Here’s a fun story of how one project has spiced up their build process to play success and failure sounds.more...
22 Sep 04
One Build File, Many Deployment Environments
Daniel Frey sent in this report describing how he uses Ant’s immutable properties and code generation to build a J2EE application for any given deployment environment at the push of a button.more...
19 Sep 04
Programs That Growl
Growl is a central notification system for Mac OS X that makes it easy to send notifications from your applications that get displayed on the screen.more...
18 Sep 04
Upcoming Project Automation Talks
Mike Clark is scheduled to speak on Pragmatic Project Automation at several upcoming venues. Here’s the current schedule.more...
16 Sep 04
Tracking Projects by the Dashboard Lights
Check out this insightful article describing how one team uses automation—powered by Ruby and Java—to keep a large, geographically distributed Java project on track.more...
14 Sep 04
Programming Ruby 2 Available For Pre-Order
The book Programming Ruby 2 (aka the PickAxe book) is now available for pre-order. It’s a great way to get started using Ruby for your automation needs.more...
14 Sep 04
Quartz Quick Start
A quick-start tutorial for scheduling jobs with Quartz, an open source job scheduling system written in Java.more...
11 Sep 04
Your Router Is On Fire
Another example of how visual feedback devices transcend software development.more...
09 Sep 04
YIGNI
Glenn Vanderburg shares a story from the field about why you should always assume that you’ll need a real programming language if you want to allow your software system to be automated through commands, and how doing so can make your system more robust.more...
08 Sep 04
Your Project's Unlikely Hero
Jeffrey Fredrick’s excellent article on continuous integration draws an important distinction between nightly builds and continuous integration, and describes how his project customized CruiseControl to meet their needs.more...
01 Sep 04
Light Up Your System Tray
If you just can’t convince the boss to buy lava lamps, or your team is dislocated and can’t share a visual monitoring device, then you need another visual way to monitor your build. Here’s a script that puts a red or green icon in your system tray.more...
